Motivational Quotes

Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare